Besides infinite financial and hardware resources?

Earlier, I wrote:
   Both our Alpha and SPARC products were made
   possible by hardware manufacturers and others either donating or
   loaning us machines for the long term (over a year) to get the port
   started.  The port is more likely to happen if hardware manufacturers
   jump on the bandwagon -- a tangible demonstration of support will
   make us more sanguine about the long-term viability of a supported
   product.

Apple's recent acquisition of PowerComputing and Motorola's subsequent
announcement that it will no longer be manufacturing or marketing Mac
clones means that the whole Apple clone business it basically gone.
Apple's support for this project dried up quickly, and since there is
no other company willing to support it, the chances of an officially
supported version of Red Hat Linux for the PPC are unfortunately slim
to none.  Dataquest's recent analysis supports our opinion of Apple's
latest move; see http://cnnfn.com/digitaljam/wires/9709/23/apple_wg/

However, as I said before,
   ...volunteers
   can create an unofficial version in cooperation with us and that
   version could be installed off the net.

That is still true.  We are still willing to work with volunteers in
the Linux/PPC community to create a distribution.  The official Red
Hat Linux source tree is now very close to what is needed.  But to
support a platform takes significant help from hardware manufacturers,
or a gigantic market combined with at least marginally open hardware
manufacturers, and that does not look likely from Apple at this time.

If you want to volunteer to help, here is what you should do:

 o  Join redhat-devel-list@redhat.com by sending email to
    redhat-devel-list-request@redhat.com with a subject of
      subscribe
    Participate in the discussions there.

 o  See our development source tree, mirrored nightly to the
    world at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/devel/rhl/SRPMS/
    Compile those SRPMS on the PPC platform and upload the
    PPC versions to linuxppc.org for everyone to use.

 o  If you need to make changes to any of the SRPMS to get
    them to compile on the PPC, tell us about it on
    redhat-devel-list@redhat.com

Thanks,


Michael K. Johnson  johnsonm@redhat.com